Is McCain Risking ‘Overexposure’? Senator To Make His 13th Sunday Show Appearance Since January
Is McCain Risking ‘Overexposure’? Senator To Make His 13th Sunday Show Appearance Since January
Last week when President Obama appeared on five Sunday morning public affairs shows, the media went crazy wondering whether he was risking “overexposure.” (Of course, Obama’s aggressive communications push on health care came after weeks of criticism from reporters that he wasn’t visible enough.)
Americans aren’t sick of hearing from their president. A new poll shows that only 34 percent of the public believes they are hearing “too much” from Obama; 54 percent say they are hearing “about the right amount.”
The person who does seem to be getting an inordinate amount of exposure is defeated presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). ABC’s This Week host George Stephanopoulos is pumping an “EXCLUSIVE” interview he has scored with the senator this week. But as Steve Benen points out, it’s not really all that exclusive:
For those keeping score at home, this will be McCain’s 13th Sunday morning appearance since President Obama’s inauguration in January. That’s 36 Sundays, for an average of a McCain appearance every 2.7 weeks.
Since the president took office, McCain has been on “Meet the Press” twice (July 12 and March 29), “Face the Nation” three times (August 30, April 26, and February 8), CNN’s “State of the Union” twice (August 2 and February 15), and “Fox News Sunday” three times (July 2, March 8, and January 25). His appearance on “This Week” on Sunday will be his third visit in five months (September 27, August 23, and May 10).
That’s a lot of appearances for someone who isn’t the president or part of the congressional Republican leadership. This latest round of hyperventilating isn’t the first time the media has criticized the President for taking his message to the public (through the media). In March, journalists and pundits wondered whether Obama’s “media tour” was taking “attention away from his message” on the economy. Ironically, one of the pundits joining in was Meghan McCain:
KING: Over exposure?
McCAIN: I think he is on the verge of it. I do think you have to be careful. But it is a different generation. You know, mine, the generation of YouTube and Twitter and MySpace and we like our celebrities. … However, he is on the risk of alienating his older followers.
Watch it:
According to Eric Boehlert at Media Matters, after Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) lost to President Bush, he made just three appearances on the five major Sunday news talk shows in the first eight months of 2005.
Our show this week is focused on Afghanistan and foreign policy. Our lead guest is the President’s Defense Secretary (after a week where the President was our only guest). McCain is the leading GOP voice on Afghanistan. We think it’s important for our viewers to hear that perspective…For a show focusing on Afghanistan, he is easily the right GOP guest. No apologies for inviting him.
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Mc: “You know, mine, the generation of YouTube and Twitter and Mississippi and we like our celebrities”
– - Mississippi? Did I miss something?
September 24th, 2009 at 12:04 pmthis will be McCain’s 13th Sunday morning appearance since President Obama’s inauguration in January. That’s 36 Sundays, for an average of a McCain appearance every 2.7 weeks.
– - I’ll tell ya what’s overexposure, JohnnyMac – - it’s sending out your lemmings and sycophants across the media airwaves one Sunday morning to gin up fear and cull support for an invasion of a country that had nothing to do with attacking us on September 11, 2001.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:08 pmBadmoonman — transcription error! We’ve fixed.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:08 pmIf the media wants to talk overexposure, they should complain about all the coverage of the ignorant, hateful, anti-democracy tea-baggers.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:09 pmAnother example of IOKIYAR.
Were are the people that railed against the Dixie Chicks when Palin attacked Obama from Hong Kong yesterday?
September 24th, 2009 at 12:09 pmDoes anyone care about John McCain? He’s not a major player in bipartisanship like he promised, he’s not in the lead of GOP politics…no one should care about this guy.
http://www.political-buzz.com/
September 24th, 2009 at 12:10 pmAmanda Terkel says:
Badmoonman (sic) — transcription error! We’ve fixed.
– - Heh. Mississippi = MySpace.
“You mean we don’t get French benefits?”
September 24th, 2009 at 12:14 pmjohnnymac was overexposed in ‘82
i don’t know what he is now, other than immune to embarrassment.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:14 pmGlad to know McCain is making another appearance….I’ll know exactly which show to turn off.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:23 pmOver exposure for McCain?
Nah, I never watch him; he is irrelevant.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:23 pmJohn McCain is a maverick. He’s a Very Serious Person.
Every mornin’ at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed 245
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew you didn’t give no lip
To Big John
September 24th, 2009 at 12:28 pmJohn McCain – The REAL political celebrity! No wonder that label didn’t stick on Obama during the campaign last year …
September 24th, 2009 at 12:29 pmThe whole “overexposure” meme is telling in terms of how the media sees itself and the Presidency. Everything is about celebrity. They see television exposure and the celebrity it brings as the ultimate prize, placing themselves, the President, and Britney Spears on equal footing. It doesn’t matter that the President is engaging the American people frequently on the important issues of the day, what’s important is that he may be putting his celebrity status at risk.
Someday all this horseshit has to got to implode.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:29 pmMaybe McCain gets on the air so often because he can’t be bothered to go to work.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:29 pmMcCain, quit exposing yourself in public.
Larry Craig & Mark Foley are quite enough already.
By the way, how’s that trollup c&nt wife of yours?
Old men, old ideas and old cheese have one thing in common…
September 24th, 2009 at 12:33 pmHuh. He must’ve gotten hooked on all that media coverage last year. Or maybe he was jealous that his running mate garnered more attention than he did.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pmThe new young – - the old.
What a marvelous example of technological contortionism and time reversal by the inventor of the Blackberry.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pmIs McCain Risking ‘Overexposure’?
Boy, that train left the station years and years and years ago!
On the other hand, if he joins the cast of “Dancing with the Starts” . . . I’m just sayin’.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pmMcCain is a globalist dweeb whose allegiances go to the highest bidder, he’s a Neocon one day, then is a Neoliberal overnight, the only thing consistent with this guy is that he hates freedom. He would turn this place into a banker controlled police state overnight if he were President.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pmDancing with the Stars — geesh!
September 24th, 2009 at 12:39 pmThis “overexposure” crap is silly. It’s not really possible to have too much President. You’re either sick of whoever gets the job as soon as they got it, or you want to hear whatever he wants to tell you. The number of appearances he makes doesn’t affect that.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:39 pmNewsFlash!
Elvis Presley found alive and younger than before in a Memphis coffee shop twittering on his laptop and texting on his cellphone.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:41 pmAdmittedly he is probably better for Sunday morning ratings than the alleged Republic leadership (looking at McConnell or Boehner on a Sunday morning = all day appetite suppressant) but assuming the talking heads are waiting for a “good television moment” Uncle McNutzi probably isn’t even in the top half of the Republic congressional team for bringing the crazy. I figure DeMint is about one appearance away from biting the head off a chicken.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pmI’m still looking for something that will prevent me from getting burnt from overexposure of McCain, Palin, Rove, Cheney, Beck, Limbaugh, etc.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pmRepublican lawmakers haven’t done any work since January (unless you count their blank stimulus proposal and a couple pages of bullet points on HC reform). They have nothing but time on their hands as it takes but a fraction of a second to simply say “NO” all the time. Considering that the Republic Party has NO SOLUTIONS to the myriad problems that they cursed this Nation with they sure like to take to the airwaves and bloviate against their oppositions efforts to fix their mess.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pmHe’s not risking over exposure, the American public is risking increased nausea.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:45 pmIt’s not over exposure.
It’s over stupidity.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:53 pmI’m thinking about trading in my Volvo for a fighter jet.
Then everyone would know how much I love my country.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pmAccording to Eric Boehlert at Media Matters, after Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) lost to President Bush, he made just three appearances on the five major Sunday news talk shows in the first eight months of 2005.
And that’s because 85% of the MSM is owned and controlled by conservatives. They don’t give a voice to liberals, only to conservatives. If we don’t change this soon, our country is doomed to failure.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:57 pmWhy why why does everyone including TP keep listening to the reich wing clowns and their clown posse media and the usual suspects websites?
I does not matter WHAT Obama does. When he is making media appearances they critisize him for overexposure. When he is not making appearances they critisize him for not getting the message out.
JUST IGNORE THEM! It does not matter what he does. They will try critisize him no matter what he does! GET IT?!!!
September 24th, 2009 at 12:58 pmMcSame is interviewing for a commentator slot on Cluster-Fox Sundays. He has nothing else to do … can’t go to the ranch and bust some sods..too far…can’t run Cindy around the block a couple of times – to dangerous…Can’t go far a walk that many times in a day – would get mugged…what’s an active 300 year old suppose to do???
RETIRE….GO HOME….DRY OUT….BUST SOME SODS….HAVE CHIMPY OVER FOR RIBS…LEAVE US ALONE…
September 24th, 2009 at 1:02 pmyou wish, but you hold on to that notion since it’s really the only chance you’ve got.
Even if it’s true, what does it say about you? See, you lose, any way you add it up, you lose.
September 24th, 2009 at 1:09 pmOverexposure? By a Repugnisum?
September 24th, 2009 at 1:14 pmAu contraire — IOKIYAR
A majority of Americans didn’t vote for Barry (fist-tap), they voted against McCain/Palin
September 24th, 2009 at 1:34 pm— Since when does saying things make them so?
This “quick” guy is pretty slow
September 24th, 2009 at 1:49 pmMcCain should stop being petty and condescending. He should act more like a statesman by taking to task the crazies. Even if he fails to stop the radical right wing, he will still look good in the eyes of the voters and history. Taking an unpopular position with his own party would enhance his stature if the moderates seek to regain control of the Republican party. He can choose to be a voice of reason instead of acting like a sore loser.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:06 pm“Is McCain Risking ‘Overexposure’? Senator To Make His 13th Sunday Show Appearance Since January”
Who cares about Grandpappy McSame. McSame has nothing to do with his time but plop his butt on a seat on the Sunday bobblehead shows. I hear nothing from his mouth about the issues and concerns of his own state. Seriously, nobody cares about Grandpappy or how times that he is the bobblehead shows. McSame lost his Maverick mojo.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:24 pmCorrection: how times that he is on the bobblehead shows.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:25 pmI don’t know why people would want to know what McCain thinks anyways, since he’s demonstrated that his thought processes are simply horrific – he seems to view national and global politics as a big game of craps, and likes to roll for the longshot. And it’s not like he believes in anything, since he tried to legislate to allow torture. So there’s pretty much nothing he has to say that anybody would want to hear.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:38 pmMeghan McCain should NOT comment on the possibility of ANYONE’s “over-exposure.” She is the most over-exposed person of sub-minimal talent in the public sphere today.
Over at The Daily Beast, she is able to write full paragraphs in complete sentences, but they are generally content-free.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:46 pmMcCain overexposure? Too funny. How about Obama overexposure. He is on TV every fricking day.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:08 pmMcCain has a long way to go to become the TV cult figure that Obama is.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:14 pmAmericans aren’t sick of hearing from their president. A new poll shows that only 34 percent of the public believes they are hearing “too much” from Obama; 54 percent say they are hearing “about the right amount.”
A democratic poll if there ever was one.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:17 pmJeebus!! Stephanopolafogus is McCain’s boosum buddy–don’t you remember when they vacationed together at the Grand Canyon and Steph “twittered” about what fun he had? He and the pathetic dance partner of KKKarl Rove, David Gregory, can’t get enough of Grampy McSame….he has a cot set up with his name on it in the NBC & ABC studios. Face it–he’s such a media whore that we’re never gonna get rid of that guy until he goes to that great pundit studio in the sky.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:04 pm